# emerge -a firefox
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "firefox" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- www-client/firefox-13.0::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> (15 Jul 2012)
# Replaced by the new 4.8.4 release of kde-base/konqueror.
# Removal in 30 days.

- www-client/firefox-13.0 ::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

Amazing! Firefox will soon be out of gentoo. I hope this is a joke!

In fact, this doesn't look to be a joke, even if the real message is the following:

Code:

# emerge -a transset-df

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "transset-df" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- x11-misc/transset-df-6::x-test (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> (25 Jun 2012)
# Replaced by the new 1.0.0 release of x11-apps/transset.
# Removal in 30 days.

- x11-misc/transset-df-6::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

I copied the ebuild over my personal test overlay. Just in case this is not a joke!

See bug426550_________________[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading that text: please consider ]]]
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I didn't try it before, because it is not documented into the man page. So, I will change this bug into a man page issue._________________[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading that text: please consider ]]]
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